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The Leaves which thickly cover thefe, are about an Inch anda Quar- 
ter long, and about half an Inch broad, and fharp-pointed, bearing, on 
flender Spikes, feveral very fmall Four-leav’d Flowers. 
The Piftil, which grows from the Centre of each, is tipped with an 
Apex, and fucceeded by a fmall red Berry. 
A. Cataplafm of this Plant, bruifed, is very juftly looked upon to be 
a good Vulnerary. 
It grows chiefly in fhady Places ; and blooms in Fuse and Fuly. 
I have found this Plant in great Plenty in the Parifhes of Sv. Peter and 
St. Lucy. 
The So LDIER’S-BUSH. 
[ HIS Plant is jointed, at different Diftances, from Three to Eight 
Inches afunder. 
Its Roots are ftrong and fibrous ; the main Stalk, and its divided 
Branches, growing often above Four Feet high. 
The Leaves are near Six Inches long, and Four broad. 
Its upper Side is thinly befet with very fhort hairy Briftles. 
From the Top of the Branches rife {mall white Flowers. 
Thefe are fucceeded by {mall white Berries, {potted with Black. 
There often grows at the Root of this Plant a fungous Excrefcence, 
which anfwers the End of 'Touchwood. 
It is juftly efteemed an excellent Vulnerary, and with great Succefs, 
made a Part of moft kinds of healing Salves. 
Pops; Lat. ALKEKENGI Indicum majus, 
HIS Plant hath a fiftular quadrangular Stalk, growing to about 
Two Feet high, cloathed with thin flender Leaves, Four Inches 
long, and Two broad, having their Edges, at uncertain Diftances, neatly 
fnipped. 
Upon the Top of the Stalks appear feveral yellow apetalous Flowers. 
Thefe are fucceeded by thin bluifh capfular Pods, which inclofe a 
round green Fruit of about the Bignefs of a {mall Cherry. 
4 As this ripens, and turns yellow, the outward Pod, or Covering, which 
is of a blunt conic Form, withers, and drops off. 
The Fruit is full of {mall Seeds, not difagreeable to the Tafte. 
They are juftly looked upon to be very diuretic. 
‘ There is another Plant, which bears the fame kind of Fruit. 
This differs from that already defcribed, by being a creeping {candent 
Plant, and its Leaves fhorter and thicker than the former. 
This is called the Pop-Vime, and grows in moft Parts of the Ifland ; 
efpecially under the Shelter of Hills. 
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